St. Angela Merici Parish May 17, 2020 3860 N. Hwy 67 saintangelamerici.org Florissant, MO 63034 P O, 838-6565 Parish Fax Number, 838-6566 Pastor Msgr. Matthew Mitas, ext. 102 Deacon Rev. Mr. Joseph Kroutil Parish Secretary Linda Brindley, ext. 100 [email protected]Bookkeeper Monique Zykan, ext. 103 Music Director Sharon Churchill Mary Ann Kauffman, ext. 101 St. Vincent De Paul...ext. 504 N< P=> Register in the parish office, Mon-Fri, 8:00 am- 4:00 pm. SA>B = BCBA Baptism Instruction is to be scheduled with a parish priest. SA>B = ME To be arranged with the parish
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Mass Schedule Mon - Fri 8:00 am
Saturday First Sat. of the month, 8:00 am Saturday 5:00 pm (Vigil) Sunday 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 am
Eucharistic Adoration Tuesdays 8:30 am - 7:00 pm
7:00 pm - Perpetual Help & Benediction
Reconciliation Saturdays 4:00 - 4:45 pm
Or by appointment, call 314-838-6565
Perpetual Help Devotions Tuesdays After 8:00 am Mass & 7:00pm
Holy Day of Obligation Masses
To Be Announced.
BULLETIN NOTICES: Submit to the parish office by Monday at 4:00 pm. Please email notices to: [email protected].
NEW PARISHIONERS: Please register in the parish office, Mon-Fri, 8 am - 4 pm. For more information, call the Parish Office, 314-838-6565.
Prayer, Liturgy and Sacrifice MINISTERS
FOR NEXT WEEKEND, MAY 23 & 24
WEEKEND SERVERS 5:00 pm - NONE
7:30 am - NONE
9:30 am - NONE
11:30am - NONE
WEEKEND LECTORS 5:00 pm NONE
7:30 am –NONE
9:30 am - NONE
11:30 am - NONE
EXTRAORDINARY MIN. OF HOLY COMMUNION 5:00 pm - NONE
7:30 am - NONE
9:30 am - NONE
11:30 am - NONE
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Monday, May 18
8:00 am - Mary Dietz
Tuesday, May 19
8:00 am - The Desloge brothers & deceased
Members of the Family
Wednesday, May 20
8:00 am - Betty Schmidt Thursday, May 21
8:00 am - Jeanne Croteau
Friday, May 22
8:00 am - Schmidt Family
Saturday, May 23
5:00 pm - Ralph, Ben & Theresa DuBray
Sunday, May 24
7:30 am –Jeanne Corteau
9:30 am - Mary Dietz
11:30 am - People of the Parish
WEEKEND GIFT BEARERS - MAY 23 & 24
Sat. 5:00 pm - NONE
Sun. 7:30 am - NONE
Sun. 9:30 am - NONE
Sun. 11:30 am - NONE
Sunday Collection - May 3, 2020
Sunday Offering $ 10,805
Weekly Budget $ 11,290
Weekly Over/Under - $ 485
Fiscal Year To Date -$ 38,227
Since we are all staying at home and doing our shopping on line this is your op-
portunity to help St. Angela by using Am-azon smile. If you are going to purchase something from Amazon please log onto www.smile.amazon.com and choose St. Angela Merici as your charity. This doesn’t cost you anything and the church will receive a percentage from every pur-chase you make.
From The Desk of Msgr. Matthew Mitas: REMEMBER THAT MAY IS THE MONTH OF OUR LADY!
HALLELUJAH!
The blessed day has arrived. “This is the day the lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.” (Ps. 118:24) This
is the day when we thumb our noses at the Wuhan Flu, start living like normal human beings again, and stop liv-
ing like Howard Hughes. If you haven’t already gotten it, you will receive a letter from me concerning the guide-
lines for the start-up, but suffice it, for now, to say, they will all predicated upon the social-distancing with which
we are already quite familiar. The church will be open for 8:00AM Mass on Monday, May 18, and will remain
so from then on. A couple of important notices:
1) If you are sick (especially with a fever), stay home until you’re well.
2) If you’re in the high-risk categories and are fearful about returning, stay home (you have
a dispensation)
3) We are doing everything we reasonably can to insure a safe environment here in church.
4) When you do come into church, stay six feet from the person nearest to you.
5) We will continue to stream all the Masses live (and maybe some other things as well).
There will be some other particulars, which the letter will address. I hope we only need to do this stuff for a
short time. There’s already very good news about the imminent availability of reliable vaccines and dramatic re-
ductions in the numbers of new cases.
THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
Next Sunday, when we’re all back where we belong, we will celebrate the Ascension of the Lord. Forty days
after His Resurrection, He departed this world, but promised two things: first, that He would never leave us or-
phans, and second, that He would come again. The first promise He kept by establishing the Church, whose
birthday and origin we celebrate next Sunday at Pentecost. Jesus didn’t leave us a book (viz., the New Testa-
ment), but rather gave us a Church that would produce that book in order to help her accomplish her divine
mandate to “teach all nations”. The second promise remains unfulfilled, but will be fulfilled at the end of time.
God always keeps His promises, so we patiently await (and long for) His Second Coming. What a combo of two
great feasts to return to!
QUIZ-A-CATHOLIC
Let’s play “Guess the Year”! Your task will be to name, as close as you can, the year when the following
events took place. I’ll give you three years plus or minus, meaning that you have a six-year target to hit, e.g., if
something happened in 1305, then any answer from 1302 to 1308 will be counted as correct, but there will be
extra credit for bulls-eyes (all events are A.D.):
1. In what year was the use of vernacular language allowed for the Mass prayers?
2. Permission given for Masses to be celebrated in the afternoon or evening.
3. Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
4. Celebrating Sunday Mass on Saturday (i.e., “anticipated Masses”) approved.
5. The Battle of Lepanto.
6. The first Council of Nicea.
7. The Apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima.
8. The Apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes.
9. Pope Francis was elected pope.
10. The Diocese of St. Louis became an archdiocese.
Features:
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH: Rachael Lawson, Jeff Gauthier, Rosemary Lica-to, Guy Henriksen, Augustine & Ray Porter, Bil-lie Lawson, Kristine Lawson, Neil MacKenzie, Margaret Kluge, Laurie Kauffman, Carl Kling, Sr., Trisha Looney, Jerome Rueckert, Charles Haynes, Kathy Pilla, Bill Stubits, Nancy Bren-nen, Peggy Hinrichs, Brian Bennett, William Buchholz, Debbie Vietmeier, Suzy Vietmeier, Gloria Wasser, John Beyatte, Phil Witte, Joe Knese, Donna Ahrens, Paula Gamel, Katie Sand-ers, Jim McMullen, Veronica Murray, Pat Bren-nan, Patty Holschen, Jude Pauli, June Hilde-brand, John Keeven, and Brian Terry .
PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SERVICE MEN &
WOMEN
Joshua Stremlau, Bradley Stremlau, Corey Rudroff, Steven Bennett, Jerrod Klug, Pat Ed-wards-Parrish, Jonathan Buss, Brad Sanders, Matthew Meske, Jackie Cotter, J. Timothy Sulli-van, Matthew Hawkins, John Reddan, Dustin Kyle, Max Rose, Craig Richardson, Isiah Stew-art, Matthew Moorman, Jacob Graham and Josh-ua Graham
CONTINUED
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF WE NEED TO ADD OR REMOVE ANYONE FROM THE ABOVE SO AS TO KEEP OUR SICK LIST CURRENT. THANK YOU!
CALL THE PARISH OFFICE IF YOU WISH TO ADD A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS IN THE ARMED FORCES.
Bonus Question: When was the St. Louis Gateway Arch com-pleted (unrelated to our becoming an archdiocese)?
ANSWERS: 1.1964 2. 1953 3. 33 4. 1970 5. 1571 6. 325 7. 1917 8. 1858 9. 2013 10. 1847 BONUS: Construction completed, 1965 – open to the public, 1967
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 16, Sat.: Confessions, 4:00-4:45PM, Mass
at 5:00PM (live streamed)
May 17, Sun.: Church open for prayer,
8:00AM-11:00AM, Mass at 7:00AM (live streamed)
May 18, Mon.: FIRST PUBLIC MASS IN
TWO MONTHS! (8:00AM)-Y’all come!
May 19, Tues.: Eucharistic Adoration in
church from 8:30AM-7:00PM (with Perpetual Help
Devotions and Benediction at 7:00PM)
May 19, Tues.: My Catechism Class also re-
sumes. It will take place in church, and I hope to have
it on live streaming as well. (After Devotions and Ben-
ediction.)
May 23, Sat.: Confessions, 4:00-4:45PM, Mass
at 5:00PM
May 24, Sun.: Mass at 7:30, 9:30, & 11:30AM
(usual schedule)
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision.” –
Winston Churchill “There is nothing that the government can
give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first
place.” – Winston Churchill “The main vice of capitalism is the uneven
distribution of prosperity. The vice of socialism is the
even distribution of misery.” – Churchill again, mak-ing this a Winstonian trifecta!
WORD OF THE WEEK
WALLYDRAG: (N.) A feeble or worthless
person or animal, as in: “Let’s not act like a bunch of wallydrags, and get on with the business of our Church and country!”
Features: ST. VINCENT DE PAUL As this is being written we are still in pandemic restriction mode. We appreciate your donations to the
collection box in the parking lot. Your bagged & secured donations of clothing & small house-hold goods have given us conference credits at the Thrift Store to help our neighbors in need when the store is reopened. While we are not making home visits yet, your contributions to the SVDP Society have allowed us to help our neighbors keep up with their utility bills. We hope to resume the Food Drives soon. We ap-preciate all the support you give to the SVDP Society. Sorry for having the wrong address, here is the a correct one for T.E.A.M. it is 265 St. Catherine St., Florissant,. MO 63031.
SUNDAY DONATION During this time of the coronavirus and since we won’t have large gatherings of people there are two ways to give your Sunday Donation
to St. Angela Merici. One is to either mail your envelope or drop it in the black mail box at the corner of the building before you get to the par-ish office. The mailing address is 3860 N. Hwy 67, Florissant, MO 63034. The other way is to sign up for the online giving. The link for the online giving is on the St. Angela Merici webpage, the address is www.saintangelamerici.org. On the home page the link is at the very bottom on the right-hand side. Click on the online giving and it will take you to the page for the online giving. Click on Create New Account and fill out the infor-mation. Then you are all set up for the online giving.
ALL MINISTERS (Lectors-Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion-Altar Servers-Gift Bearers): A Ministry Schedule will be prepared for the months of June, July and August 2020 to be ready when Mass will once again be available in Church. Please update your availability for those months in the Ministry Scheduler Pro (MSP) program or by note to Ken Schmalbeck. The new schedule will be prepared during the week of May 18th. Thank you for your service to Our Parish.
PROTECTING GOD’S CHILDREN
This really should include vulnerable
adults, also. The Archdiocese of St. Louis has developed a new system for safe environment compliance called Prevent and Protect STL. Everyone min-istering to minors and vulnerable adults (clergy, employees and volunteers) in the Archdiocese are required and asked to register in the new sys-tem before December 31, 2020. This includes those new to service and those who are cur-rently in service. For those who have already attended a Protecting God’s Children workshop, your previous training date will transfer to this new system. In addition to attending a live Pro-tecting God’s Children workshop, all clergy, vol-unteers, and employees will register for an up-dated background screening, view two new online training modules on abuse reporting and the Code of Ethical Conduct, and agree to the updated Code of Ethical Conduct. Please go to www.preventandprotectstl.org to register. Click “Register” below the LOG IN button. En-ter the passcode stlprotect. Select the type of location where you are a volunteer or employee. Select the specific location by name: St. Angela Merici Parish. Contact Linda Brindley, our par-ish Child Safety Coordinator, at 314 -838-6565 with any questions or for further assistance. This should take about an hour to do. Thanks in ad-vance for taking care of this.
MEN’S CLUB The normal scheduled meeting for Mon-day, May 18th has been cancel. The next meeting is schedule for Monday, June 22nd.
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